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Records concerning the S. Weir Mitchell Associates
Series
Identifier: CPP 13/005-01
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the records of Elliott H. Morse, Librarian of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia from 1954 to 1981, concerning the S. Weir Mitchell Associates. The collection, spanning 1959 to 1988, includes correspondence with S. Weir Mitchell Associates, business correspondence, minutes of the S. Weir Mitchell Associates Committee, financial records, materials pertaining to annual meeting banquets and recruiting dinners, George I. Blumstein papers, and miscellaneous...
Dates:
1959-1988; Majority of material found in 1960-1970
Records of Charles H. Clark, Apothecary
Collection
Identifier: MSS 5/003
Scope and Contents
The Charles H. Clark, Apothecary, Collection contains prescriptions written by many physicians of the Center City and West Philadelphia areas which were filled by Charles H. Clark at his Philadelphia pharmaceutical firm. The prescriptions are filed in sequence by number assigned as filled; the sequence approximates chronological order. The prescriptions date from February through December, 1878, and February, 1906, through October, 1908.
Dates:
1878; 1906-1908
Records of Committees of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: CPP 10/030
Abstract
The College of Physicians was founded in 1787 as a private medical society devoted to the advancement of medical education, research, and guidance of the medical profession itself. In order to help fulfill these goals, the College’s Fellowship have garnered impressive resources including a biomedical library in 1788, a medical museum in 1858, an institute for the history of medicine in 1976, and museum education programs in 2006. These resources are housed in a building constructed in 1909...
Dates:
1833-1995 (gaps)
Records of Continuing Medical Education Programs
Collection
Identifier: CPP 19-01
Abstract
During the 1970s, there was an emphasis on continuing medical education (CME) for practicing licensed medical doctors. Lifetime licenses to practice medicine were being replaced by limited time licenses that required renewal. In order to renew their state issued medical licenses, doctors were required to obtain continuing education credits. Beginning in 1974, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia offered symposiums, distance education programs, courses in Philadelphia, and additional...
Dates:
1973-1981
Records of donations and purchases of the Office of the Curator
Collection
Identifier: CPP 7/002-05
Scope and Contents
Volume lists anatomical or pathological specimen, instrument, or book, donor’s names, and brief description of the item, 1886-1906, providing an accession record for the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; items on deposit and purchases are included. Items are occasionally identified by catalogue number or contain citations to descriptions in medical literature. The accession information was compiled by Guy Hinsdale and Ward Brinton, curators of the museum. Many items...
Dates:
1886 - 1906
Records of Fife-Hamill Memorial Health Center for Southeast Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: MSS 6/003
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the official records and proceedings of
the Board of Managers of Fife Hamill Memorial Health Center
for Southeast Philadelphia, 1947-1960. Minutes and reports
of Fife Hamill's Women's Committee, 1948-1960, and a 16mm motion
picture, circa 1956, showing the services available at the Center,
are also included.Series 1 contains the minute books and related records of the
Board of Managers. In addition to the minutes, the series also
contains a few...
Dates:
1948 - 1960
Records of Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine III
Collection
Identifier: CPP 14/003-01
Abstract
The Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine (Wood Institute) was established in 1976 to promote to the scholarly community the rich historical resources of the College's historical library and the Mütter Museum. From its founding, the Wood Institute also took over printing and editorial duties of the College’s journal, Transactions and Studies, which was published in 1793 and from 1844 to 2002. As of 2018, the Wood Institute sponsors conferences, occasional seminars, and...
Dates:
1976 - 1998
Records of Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine IV
Series
Identifier: CPP 14/003-02
Abstract
The Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine (Wood Institute) was established in 1976 to promote to the scholarly community the rich historical resources of the College's historical library and the Mütter Museum. From its founding, the Wood Institute also took over printing and editorial duties of the College’s journal, Transactions and Studies, which was published in 1793 and from 1844 to 2002. As of 2019, the Wood Institute sponsors conferences, occasional seminars, and...
Dates:
1979-2003
Records of Lindsay and Blakiston [publishing firm]
Collection
Identifier: MSS 5/002
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letters and fragments of letters, filed
alphabetically, L W, received by Lindsay and Blakiston, 1855-1856.
The letters, from physicians and dentists, many in rural or
remote areas of the United States, contain orders for medical
books and journals, indicating the published materials physicians
were using at this time. There are several letters from a Buffalo, New York, firm,
A. J. Mathews and Company, and physicians, Campbell Morfit, concerning
the...
Dates:
1855 - 1856
Records of M. H. Tucker and Company
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 385
Abstract
George W. Merchant, a druggist, began manufacturing his Gargling Oil in Lockport, NY, in 1833. Merchant’s Gargling Oil was not meant to be gargled, as the name suggests, but used as a liniment. Like many 19th-century patent medicines, it was advertised to effectively treat numerous ailments, including rheumatism, burns and scalds, flesh wounds, toothaches, cracked heels, hemorrhoids, and sprains and bruises.Around 1855, Merchant sold the business to M. H. Tucker, who continued...
Dates:
1856-1857; 1870
